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Here are some suggestions on finding declassified, or sometimes just administratively controlled, documents online, including a few tricks to make them more readable. A few places are mentioned, with caveats as appropriate, where there often are reliable leaks.
One general suggestion: when searching on Google, etc, the quality of a first search improves tremendously, and doesn't pick up tinfoil hat conspiracies or third-hand summaries, if you search on full titles of agencies, documents, etc. For example, search on "Central Intelligence Agency" for your first try, not CIA.
If you have something to share about how things work in your country in this context, kindly add them to the end of the page.